M. LeBlanc is proud to present ‘Kisses’, the gallery’s first exhibition with Chicago artist Kira Scerbin. Comprising the exhibition are a selection of the artist’s recent painting and drawing.

As it rests a wound becomes its own little world. And in the aura of its rest there is a spaciousness. It had moved in unseen through laceration to draw soft circles around the hurt. With time, what had marred our tenderness and closed our lips is mended with soft kisses and whispers of something else. It blooms on your face as an alternative face, the only face pure enough to see this.

Where it hurts, it imagines. And as the aches relax and untether from the body, something astonishing happens. They alight from the catastrophe to dream of their own faces. And they turn towards you. Strange and funny, friendly and pure. They have bodies and shapes and have gestures of their own. And they come with such a kindness, as shy and as hurt and as rare as we are.

To be with them now softens the pain you walk against and pulls a radiance from your heart. Their warmth ripples outward in a chain of happenings with you as their center. In brief moments they arrive in full color; this restraint permits us to receive them gently, to walk with them as we are taught by them.

The regenerative nature of all wounds, no matter how severe, includes you. - E.S. 

Kira Scerbin (American, b. 1991 in Cleveland) lives and works in Chicago. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include GAPING HOLE LIVE (2025) at King’s Leap in New York, Caleb Jamel Brown & Kira Scerbin (2022) at Chapter in New York, Array (2021) at Final Hot Desert in White Pocket, AZ, Mommy’s Big Machine (2021) at Et. al. in San Francisco, and Pot of Snot (2019) at Prairie in Chicago. Select group exhibitions include those at Bradley Ertaskiran in Montréal, CA, King’s Leap in New York, NY, Pharmakon Gallery in Bucharest, RO, Sebastian Gladstone in Los Angeles, CA, Scherben in Berlin, DE, Hudson House in New York, NY, Harkawik in New York, NY, and Interstate Projects in Brooklyn, NY.